In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there were no martial arts examinations, mainly due to the constraints of the ancestral system.
Zhu Yuanzhang held the civil examination for three years. He thought that the young scholars were not useful, so he decided to abolish the imperial examination system. This abolition lasted for twelve years, but he could not find a more suitable selection method, so he had to resume the imperial examination again.
At this time, the Ministry of Rites suggested holding martial arts examinations, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not comment.
Three years later, the Ministry of Rites once again asked for the establishment of a military examination. Zhu Yuanzhang responded: "Setting up another military examination is to separate the civil and military affairs. If things continue like this, there will be no people in the world who are versatile in both civil and military affairs."
With Zhu Yuanzhang's words, future generations of monarchs and ministers could not disobey, and no one mentioned the matter of martial arts anymore.
During the Yingzong period, border troubles occurred frequently, bandits were everywhere, and the army was weak.
Therefore, the civil servants requested the establishment of martial arts (officer schools), and Yingzong ordered one to be established in Nanjing and Beijing. As a result, the school was still under preparation, and the Tumu Fortress Incident broke out, and the emperor was directly captured. This is how things happened at the military academy.
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By the time of Zhu Houzhao's grandfather Xianzong, the hereditary military attache system had already become full of disadvantages.
Zhu Jianshen, the daring Emperor Xianzong, established the martial arts examination in a legal form, directly promulgated the "Martial Arts Examination Law" and announced the holding of martial arts examinations.
But it’s embarrassing. No one signed up to participate in the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Xianzong's face was almost swollen from the reality, and he never mentioned the military exercise again.
The reason is that health education was not yet prosperous at that time, and not many children from military families studied seriously. Those who had studied wanted to take part in the civil service examination. It would be great to pass the Jinshi examination and become a civil servant, so they looked down on the future of the military examination.
The children of military families who really wanted to take the martial arts examination, but due to their limited knowledge, were too lazy to sign up and try their luck. Because the content of the martial arts examination was too "high-end" at that time, the examination subjects included "Primary School", "University", "The Analects of Confucius", and "Mencius"
" and "Seven Books of Martial Arts". If you fail the written test, you will not even be qualified to take part in the martial arts test.
The first martial arts competition in the Ming Dynasty was held during the Hongzhi period, but it was held intermittently and was not large-scale at all.
And because there is no martial arts examination, the emperor will not personally intervene, so there is no real martial arts champion. For example, Xu Tai? Is it purely convenient to say that he is the "martial arts champion"? He just ranks first in the martial arts examination.
The first military champion of the Ming Dynasty came into being in the fourth year of Chongzhen.
Among the martial arts candidates who took part in the examination at that time, only Wang Laipin and Xu Yanqi could dance a hundred-jin sword. When the results were announced, Xu Yanqi failed to pass the martial arts examination. After Emperor Chongzhen learned about it, he thought someone must have cheated? He called the examiner and the censor who supervised the examination
They were all dismissed from their posts and sent to prison, ordered to retake the exam and personally review the test papers.
Wang Laipin thus became the first military champion in the Ming Dynasty, and was directly awarded the title of Deputy Chief Soldier!
If Wang Yuan hadn't set up the martial arts palace examination this time? I'm afraid there wouldn't be many applicants. But since there is a palace examination, you can get into the eyes of the emperor, and naturally people from all over the country have signed up to take the examination.
In July of the 21st year of Zhengde, Yu Dayou came to the Beijing Martial Arts School. Nearly two hundred martial arts practitioners from all over the country were also present.
Examiner: Wang Yuan, left minister of the Ministry of Rites.
Deputy examiners: Wang Hong, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Wang Zan, the left minister of the Ministry of War.
Examiners: Yu Jian, the right deputy governor of the capital, and Bian Xian, the right deputy governor of the capital.
This lineup of examiners can be called luxurious? They are all people who know the military personally selected by Zhu Houzhao.
Wang Yuan stopped talking, the Ming Dynasty was victorious.
Wang Hong took the initiative in Guangdong and demolished the Portuguese castle there. He was appointed by Zhu Houzhao to Beijing as Zuo Shilang. Historically, this person was deeply trusted by Jiajing. He became the only super important minister in the Ming Dynasty who was also the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Minister of the Ministry of War.
.In terms of real power, who is the most powerful official?
When Yu Jian was the governor of Caojiang, he wiped out the remnants of Liu Liu and Liu Qi's Jianghuai tribe, and wiped out tens of thousands of bandits in Jiangxi. He was the minister who pacified Jiangxi after Lin Jun and before Wang Yangming.
Bian Xian once wiped out the remnants of Liu Liu and Liu Qi in the Wen'an area of Zhili. He also served as governor of Ningxia and led his troops to resist the Tatar attack. He achieved seven victories in five days, which won Zhu Houzhao's high regard.
Except for Wang Zan, who had never fought in a war, the other examiners and supervisors were all civil servants who had experienced the battlefield.
As an official of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Yuan cannot be the examiner?
Zhu Houzhao doesn’t care about so many things!
"The first scene, archery!"
A group of ten people go on the field with bows and arrows. Each person shoots ten arrows on foot and ten arrows on horseback.
Foot shooting is the most exciting. After the test shooting of all martial arts practitioners, the first three arrows will definitely hit the bull's-eye. They are all good players, and there is no one who is cheating. After all, there is no one who is first in literature and no second in martial arts. It is difficult to cheat on things like martial arts.
Yu Dayou shot ten arrows, nine of which hit the target, and the remaining one was not far from the target. Unfortunately, riding on horseback was difficult because he had no horses at home and had not practiced for a long time.
Then there was a test of strength. They were asked to lift different types of stone locks, and asked to dance with different types of broadswords.
The strongest have their own strong hands. Yu Dayou can only dance an eighty-jin sword, but there are four people who can dance a hundred-jin sword. This thing is not just about lifting it up, but also dancing wonderfully and smoothly, and you can do it with all the skills.
Hercules!
You can think about how much a hundred pounds weighed. The pounds in the Ming Dynasty were even heavier. It was difficult for ordinary people to lift them. But these four guys could actually wield swords.
"What a strong man!" Wang Hong praised.
Bian Xian stroked his beard and nodded with a smile: "In the army, I have only seen one person in Ningxia who can dance a hundred-jin sword. I patrolled several provinces in the north and south. I never thought that I would see four of them in a martial arts competition!"
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Wang Yuan actually didn't value this thing, but he had to admit that ancient battlefields did need brave men. The four warriors in front of him can all be brave generals who can break the enemy's trap, and can often create miracles at critical moments.
After many more assessments, we finally came to the equipment subject.
Each person has a wooden stick, and they fight against each other, with a time limit of three minutes. After three minutes, the winning group and the losing group fight each other. The cycle repeats, with only ten games, and the ranking is determined based on the number of wins, ensuring fairness to the greatest extent.
These are all contents formulated by Wang Yuan, and he even added weight-bearing running.
Yu Dayou wore cotton armor and an iron helmet. He held an eyebrow-level stick stained with lime, cupped his fists and said, "Please advise me."
"Don't take it seriously!" his opponent said in return.
The flag commander waved the flag, the drummer beat the big drum, and the equipment competition began immediately.
The opponent suddenly thrust his stick at him. Yu Dayou raised his stick to block. The opponent flicked the stick head and stabbed Yu Dayou's chest like a poisonous snake spitting a message.
This is obviously a spear technique, but it is temporarily transformed into a stick technique. If it is replaced by a big gun, its power will definitely double.
Yu Dayou uses a stick to use two-handed swordsmanship. He has not yet learned swordsmanship from Li Liangqin, but he has learned swordsmanship from Zhao Benxue for several years. Zhao Benxue was mainly a folk scholar, a part-time military theorist, and a part-time folk martial artist.
I saw Yu Dayou lightly move his right foot, tilting the stick body, and then changed his moves to stab violently, and the head of the stick made a white spot on the opponent's chest.
The opponent was so stunned that he couldn't see clearly how Yu Dayou changed his moves. He could only sigh: "Brother, your sword skills are good!"
Yu Dayou smiled and said: "I admit, my shooting skills are also good. If I hold a sword and my brother uses a spear, the outcome is still uncertain."
The opponent gained face and laughed loudly: "Then let's make an appointment to have a drink and then have a private competition with the weapons we have. Li Yang, Xianxian County, Xiahejian, dare I ask my brother's name?"
Yu Dayou clasped his fists and said, "Yu Dayou, Quanzhou, Jinjiang."
"Good man, I won't stop drunk tonight." Li Yang said and left the game, waiting for the next game. Anyway, there will be ten games, and A, B, C will be judged based on the number of wins. Failure in one game will not be a problem.
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Yu Dayou was very unlucky. In the second game, he met a strong man, one of whom could dance a hundred-jin sword.
After the fight started, the opponent swept forward with a stick. Yu Dayou dodged and planned to counterattack, but the opponent forcefully swept back even though his strength was exhausted. This broke the basic common sense of martial arts.
Yu Dayou finally realized for himself what it means to defeat ten with one force!
He is very strong, but he doesn't play tricks. He sweeps continuously and repeatedly, and occasionally uses diagonal slashes. Yu Dayou can only keep dodging after beating him - this guy uses the mace method or the mace method. Give him a handy weapon.
, he can turn into a meat grinder on the battlefield.
The three minutes are almost up, one is chasing, the other is hiding, but they haven't really engaged in the battle yet.
The warrior said anxiously: "Don't run away!"
Yu Dayou smiled and said: "I'm not stupid."
Time is up, this game is a draw.
It is a pity that Yu Dayou at this time has not yet learned the sword from Li Liangqin, has not yet evolved into a complete body, and is not known as "Yu Long Qi Hu" along with Qi Jiguang.
Historically, Yu Dayou, who was a master of martial arts, paid a special visit when he passed by the Shaolin Temple. He was very disappointed with the performance of the monks and thought that the true swordsmanship of the Shaolin Temple had been lost, so he asked the Shaolin monks to follow him to practice martial arts and fight against Japanese pirates. This is the only historical record.
When it comes to the people, it becomes Yu Dayou who challenges the Shaolin Temple and beats the monks into obedience.
After ten games, Yu Dayou won nine and tied one, and was judged by the three examiners to be "top grade" in equipment.
There are six people in total.
Zhu Houzhao liked to fight, so these six people were bound to be summoned by the emperor alone after the written examination.